Difference between self and heart is at the post-mortem, heart is found to exist in reality.I don't know what the self in the body looks like. I have never see my own heart and I don't know what it looks like either, that's the nature of it being inside the body. I don't really believe there is an object inside the body or anywhere else to be found to be called the self.
YES. The voice in the head, and the accompanying feelings, are all that reinforces the story of Daniel.It feels like feelings in the upper body as discussed before, but it moves around and may even occur in several spots at once. There is no way to know it is a self. In fact logically it doesn't make any sense at all but there is still a sense of it being one anyway. It just seems like it's the only thing that's always been there. The body grows and changes, people come and go, beliefs and opinions may change, but there is always that one long uninterrupted line of experience. That voice in the head and accompanying feelings that say "this is who you are."
Of course it seems like it's the only thing that's always been there. The fictional character "Daniel" was invented by your parents and well-established by the time you were 3 years old. They thought it was real, too. Before that your world was only experience; now you learned that there was a separate person, Daniel, who was 'responsible' for some of that experience. You were taught to believe you had some control over your experiences. As you matured, you added to the story of Daniel, creating a character that seems more real than experience.
But this story is not experienced. It is not real. It exists only as thoughts.
The sense of self is not the same as self. A sense of danger, a sense of summer, a sense of Christmas. Body feelings, memories, associated stories. No need to get rid of that. Only notice, see, that there is no self in reality.
Exactly! There is no one there!There is no one there, thought generates and is received, the two appear to be one happening as the thought doesn't occur once when it is sent and again when it is received, it just happens. There is just the one thought. With who notices the mind just assigns the label of noticer to a sensation in the body, and when I say who notices that it just jumps to another.
Thoughts happen; noticing happens; life happens! Nothing that happens requires a 'self' in order to happen or to be experienced.
Do you see how by attaching a story of 'you' to what happens that you create a false self? Things happen by themselves and you take credit for them.
Daniel, there really ARE 'just the actions happening'. Really. LOOK!!!! Look at the actions happening. There is no self. None.With no self there would just be the actions happening.
I know. This is because you want to See with your mind; i'm telling you to See with your eyes!! EXPERIENCE that the actions just happen without you.I am trying to see but I am finding it difficult.
Yes. i really get that. And the stronger the need to control, the harder it is to shake.There's little flashes of it for a micro second, but he attachment is strong. This imposition of self creeps back before I even know what's happening, and it is hard to shake again
Let me ask you this. Are you Really 'in control' of the actions you experience? Do 'you' send messages to your muscles telling them to operate? to your eyes telling them to see? to your brain telling it to understand? Do you tell the wind to blow, the sun to shine? Aren't these happening all by themselves, without a story of Daniel required to make them happen?
